AARON SAMUEL BEN MOSES SHALOM OF KREMENETS.

AARON HALEVI OF BARCELONA (Attributed to)

Daniel Bomberg

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Nishmath Adam [ethical treatise on the origin and essence of the Soul, the purpose of human life and concerning Divine retribution]. ff. 32. Second edition. Title within typographic border. Novellae in pen on opening leaf. Owner’s signature on title: “I purchased this volume with ma’aser (tithe) money in the month of Shevat,1804, Pinhas son of Judah Leib Segal Fried. [Vinograd, Wilhermsdorf 165; Rosenfeld, Jewish Printing in Wilhermsdorf (1995) no. 159 (includes facsimile of title)]. Wilhermsdorf, Zevi Hirsch ben Hayim of Fürth, 1732. * Bound With: Kalmans, Mordechai ben Meir. Tavnith Habayith [ethics in poetic form]. First edition. Title within typographic border. Same owner’s signature on title ff. (4), 56. [Vinograd, Frankfurt on der Oder 304 (typographical variances)]. Frankfurt on der Oder, n.p., 1747.

Vinograd, Venice 78; Habermann, Bomberg 82; Adams A-1

In the first work, the Author cites here three unpublished works of his—on ethical and religio-philosophical problems, as well as novellae to the Talmud. R. Aaron Samuel began preaching in Fürth towards the end of 1606, in 1615 he became Rabbi in Fulda. The book bears the endorsement of “Isaiah ben Abraham Segal, Frankfurt” - the celebrated author of Shnei Luhoth Ha-Berith, Rabbi Isaiah Halevi Horowitz (See lot ***). The second work, bears the endorsement of the Rabbi of Berlin, David Frankael, famed author of Korban Ha’edah, commentary on the Talmud Yerushalmi. Otherwise, Frankel’s other achieve. \ment was having served as the teacher of Moses of Dessau (Moses Mendelssohn). - More remarkable is the endorsement of R. Joel Baal Shem Tov, who was, as his last name indicates, a famed practitioner of theurgic healing through Divine names. This is one of five endorsements by this Baal Shem Tov. Its’ place alongside that of recognized rabbis of distinguished communities says much of the high standing in which he was held by his contemporaries. See Immanuel Etkes, Baal Hashem (Jerusalem, 2000), p. 42, n. 79.